Public meeting for review of regional disaster plan

Logan County Office of Emergency Management

Posted:
08/25/2014 12:20:00 PM MDT

A public meeting to review the Northeast Colorado Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan is scheduled for Sept. 12 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Northeast Colorado Health Department, 700 Columbine, Sterling. The Logan County Office of Emergency Management is hosting the meeting to give citizens an opportunity to review 2014 revisions and make comments or suggestions. All comments received from the public will be documented and considered for inclusion in the Plan.

Updates to the Plan, originally prepared in 2004, are being developed through a partnership of member counties of the Northeast Colorado Emergency Managers (NCEM). The counties of Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and Yuma and their partners are participating in the 2014 update of this document.

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The purpose of the Plan is to protect people and property in northeastern Colorado from the effects of natural and manmade hazards by identifying and implementing measures for reducing and eliminating losses from hazard events. This plan provides local officials with a tool to guide policies and actions that can be implemented over the long term to reduce risk and future losses from hazards. Formal approval of this plan by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) also assures that participating jurisdictions will remain eligible for federal grant funding under FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Assistance grant programs.

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